BT have just retired the dial-up network. For an early user of the US Robotics “Sportster” 14.4kbps modem, the metallic hiss and shrill tones of an internet connection in the early nineties was the ...

AOL, a major American internet service provider, has announced that it will end its dial-up connection service, which it has provided for 34 years, on September 30, 2025. This will also mean that the ...

The governments National Statistics office has published its latest summary of the levels of Internet access in the UK, covering January 2004 until January 2005. These show that in those 12 months the ...

I'm stuck behind dialup for the time being, and have set up connection sharing for the dial-up connection. Is there any way for me to create a shortcut on the client computer to automatically dial out ...

A familiar tone turns into phantom dialling. The little box in your house or office is calling out to an answering modem. Brief chirps confirm the two devices are ready to talk each other’s language.

BT has pulled the plug on dial-up internet access with its last modem bank to be switched off on Saturday. The telecoms group said that only a small number of its customers were still using a dial-up ...

Blogger Lily Siwik uses the chat tool Discord and an audio decoding program to create a dial-up connection. PCs in the 2020s basically do not have modems for dial-up connections. So Siwik sought out a ...

The company claims that faster options have now largely taken over, and insists that only "a very small number of customers" will be affected by the closure of the dial-up services upon which everyone ...

Broadband has officially overtaken dial-up as the most popular way for Britons to connect to the internet, government statistics show. Take-up of broadband connections has outstripped dial-up for some ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Australians in rural and remote parts of Australia are most likely to be affected by Telstra's move to ...